All the stories in the book come from my personal experiences and oral narrations from the elders in the neighborhood. There are no scary stories that can be fabricated, only bizarre ghost stories that are rooted in the countryside and actually happened. There are countless evil and strange things hidden in the remote mountain villages. Those strange things that the older generation keeps silent about. I have recorded them here one by one to give you a glimpse of another unknown side of the mountains and wilderness.
When I went back to my hometown to take the art exam and sketch, I accidentally discovered a pair of prying eyes hidden in the ancient well of my old house.
In the Republic of China, a disloyal scholar murdered an official lady, and his soul was sealed in a copper box and buried in the foundation of a teahouse;
Pregnant women who fell from buildings in the community cried every night, and sailors at sea were trapped in decades of guilt and obsession.
Xiaofan, a young man who knows talismans, and my best friend Xinxin accompanied me through the ancient villages in the south of the Yangtze River.
While preparing for the art exam, he also healed the regrets of centuries-old souls.
There is no bloody killing, just resolving old grudges and obsessions.
